Final Exam English
Terms
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- A writer's choice of words and the way they are arranged in the sentence
- Diction
- Descriptive words and phrases taht appeal to a reader's senses
- Imagry
- Turning point of the story
- Climax
- Main character of the story
- Protagonist
- A form of language as it is spoken in a particular region or group
- dialect
- A writer's hints or clues to later events in a story
- foreshadowing
- Time and place of a story
- Setting
- Occurs after the climax of the story
- falling action
- what they essay is about
- topic
- what you have to say about the evidence
- explanation
- lat paragraph of the essay, which closes the discussion of the topic
- conclusion
- Editing and making changes in content, style, and orginization
- revising
- Picking your topic and organizing your ideas and evidence
- Pre-writing
- Writing all of the information you have gathered in paragraph form
- drafting
- what you have to say about a subtopic
- Idea
- A breakdown of the main topic into parts, also called the 'body paragraphs'
- sub-topic
- Facts that relate to the sub-topic. Can be given in the form of quotations and examples
- evidence
- Middle three (or more) paragraphs of the essay, which develop, explain and support the sub-topics
- body
- A poem or series of lines in which certain letters usually the first in each line form a name
- Acrostic
- The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.
- Alliteration
- The repetition of vowel sounds wihin non-rhyming words
- Assonance
- a person, place, activity, or an object that stands for something beyond itself
- symbol
- The continuation of a sentence or idea from one line of a couplet poem to the next
- enjambement
- the repetition of one or more lines in each stanza of a poem. recurring phrase or line
- refrain
- a unit of verse made up of such a row or formed of a certain number of metrical feet characteritic of the verse. basic part of poem
- line
- a category of poetic literature that is distinguished from the narrative and dramatic poems. short, usually personal and song like
- lyric
- the regualar pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry. (all poems have rhythem, not all have this)
- Meter
- a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributeed to an objectr, animal, or idea
- personification
- CRASH BANG BOOM
- onomatopoeia
- A general pardon, especially one granteed by a government to people who have committed political offenses
- amnesty
- to fail to keep a promise, especially a promise to repay a loan
- default
- a harsh mixture of sounds, conflict
- discord
- in a way impossible to untangle
- inextricably
- closely
- intimately
- justifiable, resonable
- legitimate
- an ability to move, as from one social class to another
- mobility
- deadly, harmful
- pernicious
- a return to a state of friendship or harmony
- reconciliation
- to keep alive, support
- sustain
- being tolerant or lenient
- indulgently
- To lower in dignity; dishonor or disgrace
- degraded
- Widely referred to, as if the subject of a proverb; famous
- proverbial
- As a result; therefore.
- consequently
- public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
- appropriation
- THMES: I have a Dream ; Glory and Hope ;The Utterly Perfect Murder ; The Possibility of Evil
- Unity, rising up to live in harmony togther ; persistance throught struggles leads to good changes ' revenge ; ignorance??
- what is the difference between simile and metaphor?
- simile uses like or as
- what are the different types of speeches?
- imprompteau, how-to, persuasive
- how do you organize a speech's outline?
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opening statement,
visualization,
the need step
the satisfaction step
the action step - what are proper public speakin techniques for an individual?
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WATCH:
motion
facials
audience
volume - name the 6 types of poetry
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ballad
limrick
acrostic
free verse
haiku
exaggeration - give an example of personification
- the trees danced in the wind, the moon howled
- what is the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing?
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summarizing - takes up shorter space, basic idea of work
paraphrasing - same length, word for word / phrase for phrase of work in other terms - name 5 ways of beginning speech
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question
startling statement
reference
quotation
illustration or story - what is rhyme scheme in poetry and how is it marked?
- ABAB, it is the way the lines rhyme in a specific order
- what are the differences between outlining, listing, and webbing?
- outining is making a 'skeleton' of what your composition will look like. listing is writing down ideas in column form off the top of your head. webbing is making a 'flow chart' that branches off your brainstorms and possible ideas.
- What is prewriting? what are different ways to organize my thoughts for writing an essay?
- Prewriting is when you pick your toic, then organize your ideas and evidence through listing, webbing, and outlining